South Korean stocks opened higher Thursday despite overnight Wall Street losses from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s indication that it won’t likely cut interest rates next month against the hopes of many investors.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Pr…
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Thursday it has jointly developed with U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. a technology to improve the speed of the internal system of a core communications network needed for the sixth generation (6G…
Two firefighters were found dead early Thursday after they were trapped at a burning meat processing factory in the central city of Mungyeong while on a mission to search for fire victims, authorities said.
Rescuers retrieved the bodies of the firef…
A bill requiring the government to take measures in case rice prices fall or rise sharply passed through a parliamentary committee controlled by the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) on Thursday, even though President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed a simil…
South Korea’s exports moved up for the fourth consecutive month in January as exports of chips rose at the sharpest rate in around six years, data showed Thursday.
Outbound shipments advanced 18 percent on-year to US$54.6 billion last month, accordi…
Defense Minister Shin Won-sik will embark on a series of visits to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Thursday, his office said, in his first overseas trip since taking office last October.
On the first leg of his trip, Shin will vi…
A U.S. armored Army unit arrived in South Korea last month as the new rotational force to operate in the country for nine months, the U.S. military stationed here has said.
Equipment and personnel of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment arrived in the country …
The United States will make sure South Korea’s concerns over the U.S. rules on limiting the sourcing of critical minerals and components for electric vehicles from China are “taken into account,” a senior U.S. official said Thursday, amid growing cal…
Cuba’s new ambassador to North Korea has begun his duties, according to the North’s state media Thursday, as countries having friendly ties with North Korea have ramped up diplomatic activities in the secretive regime since the opening of its border….
A senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that the United States has “encouraged” South Korea to allow “all stakeholders” to have time to offer feedback on Seoul’s proposed rules designed to tighten oversight over market-dominant online platform busines…